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conglomerate

[kuhn-glom-er-it, kuhng-, kuhn-glom-uh-reyt, kuhng-] / kənˈglɒm ər ɪt, kəŋ-, kənˈglɒm əˌreɪt, kəŋ- /




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Today, the studio is run by the conglomerate Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

In early 2023, he became executive vice president at TWG Global, the conglomerate Walter had just launched to hold his stakes in Guggenheim businesses as well as his portfolio of professional sports and technology investments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

But finding his successor will be no easy task for the country's most revered conglomerate, whose sprawling $300bn empire spans Jaguar Land Rover and Air India as well as manufacturing iPhones for Apple.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

The conglomerate said it is seeking more than US$1.5 billion in damages for the “destruction of the company’s investments” in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Since the 1980s, Latin American broadcast media has become increasingly dominated by a small number of large commercial conglomerates, mostly tied to wealthy, powerful families.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2026

After more mergers, it eventually became part of Penguin Random House—by far the largest of the publishing conglomerates, with over 350 imprints.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

"We've been putting solar panels on our malls just to save on energy," Frederic DyBuncio, president and CEO of SM Investments Corp, told AFP, adding that the country's other conglomerates were doing the same.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

It’s so competitive that media conglomerates often tout the combined success of multiple brands to demonstrate dominance.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

Self- worth tends to be narrowly defined by admission to a few highly selective universities and prestigious, high-paying jobs at conglomerates like Samsung, Hyundai, and LG.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

"All of these are just in a kind of conglomerated business under Elon Musk's name."

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Late on Monday, Abu Dhabi-based conglomerated International Holding Co. said it will make a $381 million investment into Adani Enterprises.

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2023

The former is supposed to lead to the latter, as it seemingly has for the five companies conglomerated under the intimidating acronym FAANG.

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2021

I’ve written extensively elsewhere with co-authors about why it makes sense for media companies to break apart rather than stay conglomerated.

From Forbes Mar. 26, 2015

Then fine little cakes of conglomerated stuff, which only a great man of nature could describe, came floating about, and curdling into corners, and holding on to one another in long-tailed strings.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Possible answers invoke myriad world-making methods, from titanic impacts to the gluing together of spaceborne hail, where the conglomerating force of gravity may battle disruptions from magnetic whirlpools that nascent worlds are thought to encounter.

From New York Times Jul. 23, 2021

“The Globes have exhibited some amount of prescience in conglomerating film and television,” said Matti Leshem, a movie producer and the chief executive of Protagonist, a Hollywood branding company.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2013

Maurice Greenberg, a Russian immigrant, started the Connecticut Leather Co. in Hartford in 1932 to sell supplies to shoemakers, but his sons Arnold and Leonard began conglomerating in the 1960s.

From Time Magazine Archive

With such sales, no wonder the conglomerates are conglomerating in the record business.

From Time Magazine Archive

In June the military chiefs at Washington were vainly doing all that military men could do to make something like the beginnings of an army out of the conglomerating mass.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood




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